A/N: I dedicate this chapter to Natsuko26 & mdawn89 & Moonlight Miracle . Sakuriana Hime

Alicia Vivian Réneta Graymark

I was still in shock over the contents of the letter. I was walking around the institute after waking up the next day, in a daze over what the letter said. I mean… Me? A Princess? Or was it a lady? I have no clue… I need to speak with someone. I need to talk to someone about this…

But who?

Just as I thought that, Izzy's voice coming floating down the corridor, "Mom's in rare form today."

I didn't want to interrupt their conversation so on the way down the corridor, I contemplated whether I should interrupt them or not. "-mental Mom with me." She paused, leaving me with a way to interrupt the conversation.

I knocked on the door before Izzy could say anything else. They both turned around to see me. "Hey guys. Erm- could I talk to the two of you for a sec? It's important…"

At the sound of the word 'important' they instantly nodded so I walked in and stood in front of them. I kept my head down for a couple of moments before clearing my throat and beginning, "I got a letter from the Clave yesterday." That made them both scrutinise me, "Technically, it was from the Inquisitor but you know…"

I sighed before retrieving the letter from my jacket pocket. "Here. Read this… It'll explain everything…"

I gave them the letter and they immediately started reading. Alec finished first and he immediately looked back at me in shock. If the situation was different, I'm sure I would have laughed but… Izzy finished not that long later and gave me the letter back.

"Should we bow?" Izzy's first response was.

I fervently shook my head. "No. No, don't do that please. I'm already freaked out as it is."

"It all makes sense now." At our confused looks, Alec elaborated, "Why all the downworlders you meet all refer to you as 'princess'. Although, technically you should be queen since there isn't anyone on the throne…" I started panicking at the thought…

"Alec! Don't panic her like that…!" There was a pause before she asked, "What are you going to do?"

"I honestly don't know. If I leave, I won't be able to see you guys but if I stay, there's a chance that they'll just have people take me back to Idris. But…" I hesitated in telling them Magnus' offer.

"But what?" Alec asked.

I looked at them both in the eye before saying, "Magnus also gave me the option of staying with him so I could learn about my powers and ancestry. It is technically the best option because that means that I can stay in New York with you because Magnus said he'd let you guys visit and let me leave if I want to- well as long as he's with me when I plan on going somewhere… But unfortunately, if I go with Magnus, it might put pressure on your family because I didn't stay with you… What do I do?"

"It is a lot to think about Lily but you'll get through it… Don't think about us. Think about what is best for you. Whatever you choose, Alec and I have your back. Don't we Alec?" Alec instantly nodded in agreement, making me smile and hug them.

We broke our hug when a male voice at the door said, "No 'welcome home' for the old man?" Two males walked in: one older, who I recognised to be Maryse's husband, Robert and a little boy.

"Max!" "Daddy!" The two Lightwoods chorused and went to hug their remaining family members.

The little boy was so cute. I was stood behind Alec as I watched the Lightwood reunion. "What are you doing back so soon?" and the little boy replied that he, "Got in trouble in Mumbai."

That caused me to laugh; he's a troublemaker. That's adorable!

Alec turned to look at me and gestured me forward so I said, "Oh, what'd you do?" Max stared at me curiously before shrugging, "Nothing."

Robert spoke up from behind Max, "He started a fire with his stele during rune studies."

Izzy chuckled as she stepped forward to hug her little brother "Max."

He tried to excuse his behaviour, saying, "I told you, I was hungry. I was trying to draw the Nourishment rune."

Alec smiled in amusement, "Those two runes look nothing alike, Max."

I spoke up from beside him, "He's only what- nine? The two runes may look similar to him Alec!"

"Exactly!" Max said, pointing at me, "I like you!"

"Max, go up to your room, open the Gray Book and look up the Extinguish rune." Robert said as his son sighed before walking away. "You must be Maryse's god daughter, Alicia." I nodded and shook the hand he offered. He walked away before asking all of us, "Where is Clary Fairchild? Your mother said she's missing."

"She's not missing." Alec said with a sigh. "She's with Jace."

He scolded his son saying, "We can't have that girl out of Institute control. The entire Shadow World is looking for her. It's a security risk. Get them both back here now."

He walked out causing me to turn to the others, "Alec, you better call Jace. I'll see you two later." I went to walk out the door but stopped and turned around, "And please don't tell anyone of the thing we talked about earlier. It's a big decision, which needs to be thoroughly thought about so it will take time. Please?"

They nodded and so I left for the sanctuary of my room.

I had just finished runing a small bag so that it would be bottomless in my room and fill it with essentials such as three sets of clothes, two pairs of shoes, some food and water and a copy of the gray book. I also placed in it some daggers and several throwing knives that I retrieved from the training room earlier in the day. After I had done that, I decided to read the Gray Book but then Max came in for a surprise visit.

He hopped on to my bed and snuggled against the pillows. I walked over from my desk and sat beside him, taking the Gray Book with me.

"So… To what do I owe this pleasure?"

"I was bored and I couldn't learn the extinguishing rune so I walked down the corridor, your room was the first one I found light in so I walked in and here I am…"

I nodded before smiling at him. "Do you want me to teach you some runes?"

"Not really. It's all pretty boring and I have a teacher for that…"

"Not runes from the Gray Book. Runes my mom taught me and some I made up myself…"

I wasn't kidding. Ever since my memories came back I started to remember, little bits of my 'training' with my mother to control my powers. Along with that, apparently, I had the ability to create my own runes.

When I started having dreams about these new runes, I drew and wrote about them in a notebook that I kept hidden in the 'vault' with the tarot card.

Max sat up, interested in what I just said. "Runes you created by yourself?"

I nodded. "Uh-huh. They're Réneta Family secrets. They were passed down form generation to generation. No one outside the family knows about them. Would you like to learn some?"

He nodded eagerly.

"Okay. First of all, you're gonna have to shut your eyes because I gotta get my notebook from it's hiding space." He did as he was told and closed his eyes. I immediately stood up, unlocked the vault and grabbed the book before shutting and locking the door again. I immediately sat down and told him to open his eyes.

"Okay. I have like eighteen runes. I'll teach you four so pick four numbers from one to eighteen."

"Um. Can't I just know what you have?" but I shook my head, "Nope. There's no fun in that so pick your numbers. If you learn the extinguishing rune, I might teach you another two runes later on…"

"Okay- err-um… three. Eight. Eleven and… um seventeen."

I flicked through the pages of the book before saying, "Looks like I'm teaching you the Invisibility Rune, Monkey Rune, Shapeshifting Rune and the Paralysis Rune." He nodded eagerly, "That sounds awesome but what do they do?"

"Okay, the um" I flickered through the book, "Invisibility rune is like the glamour rune but it hides you from other shadowhunters and downworlders. It completely hides you scent, sound you make as well as the obvious, your body. The monkey rune allows you to take on characteristics of the monkey such as swinging from one thing to another etc. The shapeshifting rune, allows you to change what you look like to another person for 24 hours before it fades away. Finally the paralysis rune immobilises the person you aim the rune at. That one was the first rune that I made. My mom watched me whilst I did made it but it was the first ever one I made by myself…"

"What are we waiting for? Let's learn…" and so we did. We spent several hours in my room learning the runes. He only managed to learn two of the runes when he got tired so we spent some time getting to know each other. I was right to think that he was mischievous, he was a prankster for sure. I'm sorry to say that my runes would probably not be used for battle but for pranks; which was okay for me but probably not for the other members of the institute.

Alec came rushing into my room whilst Max and I were laughing at a story he was telling me.

"Grab your weapons. Let's go!" he said to me whilst he rushed to my bed and dragged me off of it.

I turned to Max saying, "Learn the extinguishing rune and we can carry on working on you rune work when I get back, okay?"

He nodded and rushed out of the room, leaving me to hurry around and find my weapons. Just before I left, I grabbed the bag that I runed earlier and drew another rune on it. I used the shapeshifting rune and thought of a bracelet and there it was… my bag turned bracelet. It was exactly the same rune my mother used years ago to turn my bow into a ring.

Once I was ready, I walked out of my room, just as Alec came out of his. He saw me, grabbed my wrist and dragged me out of the institute. Eventually, I managed to run by his side instead of being dragged by him so I asked, "Where are we going?"

"To Magnus'… They need our help."

"Our help? Why do they need our help?" I questioned.

"Magnus needs your blessing for something and he needs my energy or something like that, let's just go." He said speeding up. I instantly ran after him, not wanting to be alone.

Alec and I ran into Magnus' apartment to see the place trembling as the warlock was trying to prevent the werewolf from convulsing.

Just as Magnus was about to collapse backwards, Alec ran forward to catch him. He turned to Alec and begged, "Help me… I need your strength…". Alec stared at Magnus for a while before offering his hand, saying, "Take what you need." They clasped hands and looked at each other quite intimately so I backed away and headed into the other room, feeling Clary's presence there.

I heard a shout in the room, I stepped into the room to see my pseudo-sister come hurtling past me screaming, "Do you have it?"

Jace gave her a package which she emptied and threw in this cauldron of goo. She mixed it around for a while before shouting to Magnus, "Magnus. It's all in now, what do I do next."

"You need to mix in seven droplets of the ancient angelic royal line and receive the blessing of Gabriel's heir."

"WHAT? Magnus we don't have that here? How are we going to save Luke now?"

I stepped out from the room Clary was in before she left me and Magnus saw me.

He looked at me in the eye before shouting, "You know what to do!"

I immediately ran to the cauldron of goo and searched the table for a knife.

Found it.

It was big. And pointy. This is so gonna hurt. I grabbed the knife and walked to stand in front of the cauldron, nudging everyone away so I could do this properly.

I cut across my right hand and fisted my hand. Ahhhhhhhh!

"NO!" Jace, Simon and Clary shouted as they saw cut my hand. 'Don't worry guys, not suicidal here, just wanted to help the guy who acted like my father for years…" I wanted to say to them but I had to concentrate.

I placed my fisted hand above the cauldron and placed the knife on the table.

One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six. Seven.

Done.

What else did Magnus say, something about a 'Blessing of Castiel's Heir'?

Before I could even think of what that meant, my vision went gold. Great, I'm having another trance experience.

I involuntarily opened my mouth and latin - at least I think it was latin - came out of my mouth, "Ego, Gabriel heredem benedic hic lupus ad esse sanum et incolumem." At the back of mind I knew that meant, 'I, Gabriel's Heir bless this werewolf, may he be safe and healthy.'

The familiar gold mist came out of my hands and circled the potion and once the tendrils faded, it burned in a flash of light before cooling down.

"It's finished" I said in my normal voice and Clary instantly grabbed a ladle and poured some of the liquid in a cup. We all ran to the couch where Luke was - they ran, I stumbled, still in pain over the large cut on my hand.

We all watched as Clary gave Luke the drink in anticipation. The blue mist faded as Luke opened his eyes and looked up at Clary and I. "Clary… Lily…" he sighed in relief.

"Thank you, Magnus." Luke said as Magnus fluffed his pillows. "You're welcome." he replied in his weird impersonation of Jack Sparrow. He caught sight of Clary and I in the doorway and said, "I'll leave you alone." as he walked passed Clary, he warned her, "Go easy on him."

I walked up to the bed and sat beside Luke as Clary questioned him. Luke lifted up his arm, making me snuggle up closer to him as he explained why Valentine was the way he was.

I listened in as he described the type of person he used to be, "Oh… he was honorable. Idealistic. He was charismatic." It almost seemed unbelievable with what I knew he had done… "He was a leader. Devoted to protecting us from dying pointless deaths."

"We have to get the Cup before Valentine does." Luke said determinedly.

"But I don't know where it is. Or even where to start looking." I started to feel guilty. Should I tell them that I had it. After all this trouble, maybe I should ease their minds and tell them the truth. I should. NO. I will…

I went to open my mouth but my sight turned gold as a familiar memory returned to me…

Once she finished with Clary she grabbed me and pulled me to a corner, my hearing turned back on as she said, "Keep this safe, it's safest with you. Do not tell anyone you have it. Do you understand? Not even your sister!" I was confused as she gave me the tarot cord with the ace of cups. "Keep it hidden. Promise me." She shook me impatiently. "Yes mom." I nodded and I put the card into the inner pocket of my leather jacket. She grabbed her stele and pulled my jacket so she could see the pocket.

"Watch me," she ordered, "Remember this" and she drew another rune on my jacket. I mentally copied her actions so I would remember it... "Now you try it..." she said, I pulled my stele out and copied her. "Unzip the pocket" she said, I went to do so but it was locked.

I looked at mom with a question in my eyes and she quickly said, "It's a locking rune. Only you can open and close that pocket now. Do as I say Lily. Be safe. Protect Clary."

"…You're the only other person, other than your sister, that she would have trusted with the location of the Cup." I heard Luke say as the memory faded. Clary then questioned Luke in her mother's trust issues.

"She made provisions just in case it did. The potion, Lily, Dot… Jocelyn said that I should tell you everything about our past. That it would unlock you."

"What does that even mean?"

"I don't know! But you do." I know, I wanted to say but I couldn't. Maybe I could give them a clue…

"Memory's wiped, remember?"

"There are clues. They're inside the mundane world. Think, Clary." He and Clary argued back and forth as I laid in the bed. It's comfy. I could fall asleep here…

"I don't remember anything. If Mom hid the clues, I don't know what they are."

The last thing I heard before I took a tiny nap was, "You have to figure this out!"

Shocking news woke me up "…your brother."

I looked around disorientated, "Wait. Who has a brother?" whilst Clary said, "I have a brother?"

Well, I guess Clary has a brother then…

"You did." before he turned to me, "She did. He died in a fire at Fairchild Manor. A fire that her father set."

She gasped and leant forward, causing the box we searched for the other day to disappear as a sketch in Clary's notebook. I leant forward and stared at the drawing curiously as Clary had a 'Eureka!' moment.

I vaguely her say, "That's it. That's the ending of the story that my mother needed me to hear, but... Is that what she meant to unlock? How did I do that?" I looked at the drawing that Luke was holding, "There are Shadowhunters that have unusual Angelic Powers, Lily's one of those rare few but I've never seen anyone do what you just did." as he said that, I instinctively reached into the drawing and yanked the box out.

The three of us looked shocked and stared at my hand that was holding the box, "You aren't the only one with that power then Clary" Luke said with a chuckle.

"Can these powers be inherited?" Clary asked. She's figured it out…

"I think so." Luke said causing Clary to chuckle in wry amusement, "I know where my mother hid the Cup." she announced.